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Students vie for clean-up grant BY LADONNA BEEKER THE GAMECOCK USC student organizations competed Wednesday for a $5,000 grant given by PalmettoPride to start the spring Clean'Carolina Challenge. The grant will be awarded to the organization with the most trash picked up in about 30 min utes in their designated spot. Once the time expired, PalmettoPride’s Grant Review Board reviewed which organization picked up the most litter, taking into consider ation the total number of mem bers that participated from each group. “The winning organization has to give $2,500 of the grant to a campus project approved by PalmettoPride and USC,” said Becky Barnes, campaign coordi nator for PalmettoPride and a USC alumna. The other part of the award can be spent in any way the organization decides. The winning organization also has to hold monthly cleanups and participate in The Great American Cleanup on April 17. The winning organization will be announced by the end of the semester. “In partnering with PalmettoPride. we are able to of fer our students a fantastic grant opportunity,” said Patrick Walsh, Clean Carolina chairman. “I’m proud to say that no other univer sity in the nation offers such a great program to its students.” USC organizations also had an opportunity to participate in Clean Carolina during the fall 2003 semester. As the Student Senate Student Services Committee al lowed for organizations to com pete for the grant, other bonuses were involved for each group, in cluding community service hours, free food and an opportunity to post a sign in their designated area with its organization’s name. A few places that the organiza tions had to choose from in their cleanup were the Coliseum park ing lots; north and south Horseshoe; Longstreet Theater and Thomas Cooper Library area; residence hall areas and around the Russell House. Association for African American Studies, Alpha Delta Pi, Delta Delta Delta, Habitat for Humanity, Phi Sigma Kappa, Tau Beta Sigma and University Ambassadors all participated. PalmettoPride is a non-profit, anti-litter organization that works throughout the state. The money awarded to the winning USC or ganization is mostly funded by court fines imposed on litterers. “We earn about $1.2 million a year in fines,” Barnes said. The grant is to encourage stu dents’ awareness of littering and to make them more involved in keeping their campus clean. “Through the Clean Carolina Challenge, we hope to instill a sense of pride among students for their campus and their communi ty,” Barnes said. Although USC was the only col lege competing Wednesday, a few South Carolina elementary, mid dle and high schools also partici pated. According to PalmettoPride’s Web site, earlier this year 30 South Carolina schools received over $60,000 in grants. In Richland and Lexington counties, nine schools received $19,705 in grants. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocknews@gwm.sc.edu Korean scientists clone human embryo BY LAURAN NEERGAARD THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Researchers in South Korea have become the first to successfully clone a human em bryo and then cull from it master stem cells that many doctors con sider key to one day creating cus tomized cures for diabetes, Parkinson’s and other diseases. This is not cloning to make ba bies, but to create medicine.lt im mediately revived controversy over whether to ban all human cloning, as the Bush administra tion wants, or to allow this “ther apeutic cloning” that might even tually let patients grow their own replacement tissue. “We have to do this research because of its promise for treat ing disease,” said Dr. Moon Shin yong of Seoul National University, who co-led the new re search. Without cloning, stem cells won’t be genetically identical to the patient who needs them, causing “a rejection problem, and we would like to overcome it,” Moon told The Associated Press. “This kind of sci ence should be conducted in South Korea and in the United States. It is very important to medicine.” Embryonic stem cells are the body’s building blocks, cells from which all other tissue types spring. They’re present in an embryo only days after conception and are eth ically.sensitive because culling stem cells destroys the embryo. Scientists have used therapeu tic cloning to partially cure labora tory mice with an immune system disease. And they can cull stem cells from human embryos left over in fertility clinics.Attempts to clone human embryos, to supply stem cells, have failed until now. The Seoul scientists say they succeeded largely because of us ing extremely fresh eggs donated by South Korean volunteers and gentler handling of the genetic ma terial inside them. U.S. scientists almost universally want a ban on reproductive cloning because the high rate of birth defects in cloned animals shows the technique is too dangerous. Enrollment CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 of residence and need-based fi nancial aid. Vice President for Student Affairs Dennis Pruitt said |l the initiative implementation would be designed to enhance the many aspects of the university’s profile and make it more nation ally recognizable as a student body. “The university realizes that this is a major decision and that it has a philosophical determina tion of how it can best serve the state of South Carolina and what its resources are to do that,” Pruitt said. Pruitt compared USC to a $500 million company — roughly the same as its annual operating bud get — in that it is taking the fi nancial risk of possibly losing stu dents with a new enrollment structure and that it will thor oughly analyze all facets of the process before making any per manent decisions. However, Sorensen and Mager agreed the university needs to take immediate temporary action in considering admissions for the fall 2004 freshman class. Sorensen suggested a retreat of administrators and trustees on Feb. 23 to discuss the matter. Noel-Levitz has consulted on enrollment management for more than 1,600 institutions, in cluding the University of Florida and the University of Southern California. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocknews@gwm.sc.edu Graduation CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 an hour, while part-time, out-of state MBA students will see de clines. “They’re right on the edge in terms of their budget,” Odom said about the nationally-ranked busi ness school and USC’s second fc r largest college. USC President Andrew Sorensen said with more state budget cuts expected this year he wouldn’t be surprised if other deans propose fee increases to take effect in August. Odom said the school’s fee sys tem is lower than schools in the university’s peer group. Trustee Robert McLellan said the peer group shouldn’t be the unit of measurement for every thing USC does. “It bothers me that we’re always tracking our peers in terms of costs,” he said. Board chairman Mack Whittle said it makes sense that while USC tracks what its peer institutions do in academics, it should also track their costs. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocknews@gwm.sc. edu s* WWW. daily gamecock .com Giving you USC'’ news five days a week. HliMMlUiCr PBG CamPus Development Program 1 Reminder... iave I hese Dates The Pepsi Bottling Group (PBG) is excited to recruit USC talent into our Sales Development Program. We are looking for talented, driven people that plan to graduate in May 2004. Please review the following key dates: & Resume Drop via USC Career Link: Wednesday, February 18,2004 jt 4 USC Career Fest at the Carolina Coliseum: Thursday, February 26,2004 11:00am - 3:00pm 4 On-Campus Interviews: Wednesday, March 3,2004 USC Career Center, 6th floor BA Building \ Visit www.pbg.com for more information. Marriage CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Wyrick said young people are more likely to back the gay movement. But at USC, students are di vided on the issue. Third-year advertising student Katie Holcombe said same-sex mar riages are immoral. “I totally disagree with it be cause it’s an abomination in the eyes of God,” she said. “He cre ated Adam and Eve — a man and a woman.” James Herring, a first-year public relations student who at tended the forum, said USC stu dents don’t exclude the gay community. “'All of my heterosexual friends support me,” he said. Skyler Nimmons, a second year public relations student, agreed. “For a Southern college, USC is ahead of the game,” he said. “I think that USC is a pretty open campus.” Despite resistance, activists like Wyrick are confident they’re moving in the right direction. “We are absolutely winning,” she said. “The thing getting us there is talking about it. That’s whaf s changing minds.” Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocknews@gwm.sc.edu Memo controversy stirs up Capitol Hill BY JESSE J. HOLLAND THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON - Republican snooping through Democrats’ tac tical memos=on President Bush’s judicial nominees has grown into "a full-blown Capitol Hill uproar — with comparisons to Watergate, accusations of court tampering and conservatives at tacking senior GOP senators. Already, two staffers impli cated in giving newspapers and conservative groups the memos stored on a shared Judiciary Committee computer server have been forced to leave. Secret Service agents are prowling the Capitol interviewing legislative aides, and some senators are call I , —■ ■— - -- ■ 1 . mg for an outside investigation — perhaps by the FBI — and se vere punishment if warranted. “We know that dirty tricks have long been infecting the na tion’s politics, but they haven’t infected the Senate or our com mittee until now,” said Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., who with Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., learned that some of his staff memos had been taken off the shared computer. Kennedy compared it to Watergate. “In those days, break ins required a physical presence, burglar’s tools, lookouts and get away cars,” he said Thursday. “Today, theft may only require a computer and the skills to use it and the will to break in.” Hey Students! Still Renting?!? (Or living in a dorm) 397-<962o Why not own you own home?!? 62g-oe2o We can get you in a great house & save your parents lots of $$$$!! Give us a call! 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